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(Guest Blog @ Parallels) How to Bring the Cloud to the SMB Marketplace
By Torsten Volk on Feb 13, 2012 10:58:56 AM
NoSQL Implementation Drivers
By John Myers on Feb 9, 2012 2:55:08 PM
If you look at the history of Big Data requirements (volume, velocity and variety), and the NoSQL platforms supporting those requirements, you see a history of organizations and development teams breaking the mold of traditional information technology (IT) programs. Instead of following the traditional IT methodologies to solve the Big Data issues, these teams pushed the envelope and invented new technologies to solve those “volume, velocity and variety” problems. More often than not, these efforts were accomplished using collaborative, bottom-up methodologies, such as Open Source, rather than rigid, top-down approaches found in traditional product development methodologies. Specifically, if you look at the history of the Hadoop development at Yahoo, you see an approach that sought the input and wide spread resources of the Open Source movement rather than a more rigid proprietary approach.
The CMDB/CMS Market in Transition
By Dennis Drogseth on Feb 9, 2012 10:49:26 AM
On the one hand, many in the industry have begun todismiss the CMDB as well past its prime, at least in terms of industry hype and attention. For this rather significant population, the CMDB has evolved into a complex and demanding data store with tangible but difficult-to-justify benefits, with questionable relationships to cloud computing and [...]
Diskless VDI: Resolving the VDI Storage Cost Bottleneck
By Torsten Volk on Feb 8, 2012 1:19:16 PM
Why pay $1,500 per virtual desktop, if you can have a physical machine of the same performance-level at half the cost. While the functional and maintenance advantages of virtual desktop computing are evident, the per machine CAPEX often is the key stumbling block for this type of project. It is very hard to convince your CFO to write a check for more money per virtual machine than it would cost to acquire physical desktops.
Blurring the Lines Across Traditional Boundaries: Top IT & Data Management Trends of 2012
By Dennis Drogseth on Jan 27, 2012 11:37:00 AM
At the beginning of this month, EMA analysts were asked for their predictions about what 2012 might bring. Responses spanned management solutions across applications, systems, network, security, services, assets, desktops, and mobile devices, as well as business intelligence and content management. The results were surprisingly cohesive, and as a whole reflected core requirements in analytics, [...]
Gathering Cloud Strength in Numbers
By John Myers on Jan 24, 2012 1:03:32 PM
MicroStrategy adds Teradata to list of Cloud Partners
This week at the MicroStrategy World 2012 Conference in Miami Teradata and MicroStrategy announced that Teradata Integrated Data Warehouse (IDW) was being added to the lineup of partners for the MicroStrategy Cloud. The list of partners includes:
Workload Automation Trends and Predictions for 2012
By Torsten Volk on Jan 23, 2012 3:34:46 PM
IT as a Service is one of the hottest topics these days. In a nutshell, it entails the radical alignment of all IT disciplines around strategic business requirements. Instead of having to beg IT for resources and services, as many of us are accustomed to, we can now pick all the resources and services from an easy-to-use online catalog. Workload automation features are finally becoming part of this service catalog, allowing business users to trigger, monitor, and even repair essential job flows.
Building the Path to Mobile BI
By John Myers on Jan 13, 2012 1:03:31 PM
In-Memory and Mobile Drive SAP
Today, SAP announced their revenues for 2011. It was a record year in many respects. In particular, SAP touted growth for their in-memory database HANA and their Mobile Solutions growth – two components I consider important for the development of an organizations Mobile BI capabilities. Both exceeded expectations.
The Myth of the Single Vendor Unified Management Platform
By Steve Brasen on Jan 9, 2012 11:17:51 AM
For the past two decades or so, several leading IT management vendors have tried to convince us that organizations should invest in a single unified management platform for supporting all of IT management needs. Setting aside for the moment the fact that such an animal does not and cannot possibly exist (no vendor has the capital to develop every possible IT management product– I don’t care who they are), the value proposition of a single vendor uber-solution is flawed. Sure, it sounds great to have one centralized console for accessing all automated support functions, and being able to deal with one vendor and one product set may seem like it will simplify management processes, but in reality this is not likely to be the case. Primary deterrents to all-in-one solutions include:
Choosing a Client Lifecycle Management Solution
By Steve Brasen on Jan 9, 2012 11:16:50 AM
Desktop PCs and laptops are the backbone of business profitability. Yes, yes … I know … last week I raved about the rising mobile device revolution – but that transition is still a few years off. Today the PC desktop remains king in enabling enterprise workforce productivity, and, in fact, organizational success and ongoing profitability is tied at the hip to desktop and laptop performance in most modern enterprises. Unfortunately, management of these endpoints persists in being a nightmare to perform. Consider your own home PC environment – how much time do you spend on installations, patch updates, and performance improvements, not to mention repairs from system crashes, malware intrusion, and software incompatibilities. Now extend these challenges to hundreds or thousands or even millions of endpoints, and you get some sense of the daunting task facing IT managers.